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Mathematical recreations, or, A collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments : in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography, astronomy, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chymistry, water-works, fire-works & c. : not vulgarly manifest till now / written first in Greek and Latin ; lately compil'd in French by Henry Van Etten and now in English ; with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians ; whereunto is added The description and use of the double horizontal dyal and the general horological ring / invented and written by William Oughtred.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 1465:30.
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 1023:13.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1465:30.
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1023:13.
- Standardized Title:
- Récréation mathématique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Science.
- Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Problems and exercises.
- Physical Description:
- 34 unnumbered pages, 282, 19 pages : illustrations
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Mathematical recreations.
- Collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for William Leake and John Leake ..., 1674.
- Notes:
- Translation of Leurechon's Recreation mathematique.
- Henry Van Etten is pseud. of Jean Leurechon.
- Added engraved t.p., poem on the frontispiece (added t.p. and book) precede primary t.p.
- "The description and use of the double horizontal dyal" has separate t.p. and pagination.
- This item can be found at reels 1023:13 and 1465:30.
- Wing number O585 at reel position 1023:13 cancelled in Wing (2nd ed.).
- Reproduction of originals in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library and Huntington Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1980 and 1983. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 : 1023:13 and 1465:30)
- Cited in:
- Wing L1791
- Contains:
- Description and use of the double horizontal dyal.
- OCLC:
- 11342906
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